A couple of years ago I bought a dslr and started shooting raw. The change
to raw combined with my time being at a premium after the birth of my son
resulted in a mountain of images to be sorted/deleted etc.
I click the shutter too many times and tend to really procrastinate over
what to delete, which is the pick of the bunch etc. Raw made that process
even more complicated and time consuming.
Up until now I hadn't really found an easy way to quickly *****s both the
raws & the jpg's and decide what needed fixing, what needed deleting. etc.
and more im****tantly it was a pita...I'd end up using a windows slideshow
to
decide what to cull but then I'd have to go find the associated raw to
delete as well and it was just a major put off and made photography less
fun
:(
Enter picasa. Without knowing too much about it I loaded it, pointed it
at
my image directories and let it go. I didn't even know it had raw sup****t
till after I started using it.
It has made managing my photos so much easier.
- I get to see the raw & jpg side by side.
- deciding what to delete is a lot easier.
- I can quickly delete both the raw & jpg without having to go hunting for
the raw.
- I can quickly make edits to the raw that result in a much better result
than the canon jpg
- when I save the edits as a jpg it quarantines the original raw off for
me.
- I can quickly decide when an image isn't im****tant enough to require the
raw be kept and quickly delete it.
- the simplified tools might not be as powerful as PS or RSE etc but they
do
a remarkably good job.
I'm back in the game!
Tony
